Monday - Work Day on Project
Tuesday - Work Day on Project
Wednesday - NOTES ON PRESENTATIONS
- Traveling west
- Americans traveled west to find gold
- Gold Rush - 1849
- Oregon Trail
- Narcissa Whitman - 1st female to walk Oregon Trail
- Levi Strauss - Jeans
- Mark Twain - Author during this time period
- Covered Wagons very popular
- Expanded our nation
- Revolutionary War
- Lexington - "Shot heard around the world was fired"
- Population was in thirds - Wanted separation - Didn't want separation - Didn't care
- War 1775-1783
- Civil War
- Jefferson Davis was president for the Confederate
- Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland had slaves but stayed in the Union
- 1861-1865
- Emancipation Proclamation didn't really free slaves
- South seceded because they were tired of Lincoln
- Lincolns goal was not to free slaves all together, just no slaves in the west.
- Gettysburg Address was a funeral oration
- War of 1812
- 2nd war of Independence
- 1812-1815
- DC was set aflame by British
- Great Britain wanted to take back America
- British were impressing - taking sailors on the seas, and taking them back to Britain
- America didn't win, but didn't exactly win
- Francis Scott Key wrote Star Spangled Banner - 1814
Thursday - NOTES ON PRESENTATION
- Civil War
- Fort Sumter was the first battle
- Battle of Gettysburg was the bloodiest battle
- Robert E. Lee - Commander of Confederate
- Ulysses S. Grant -Commander of Union
- Revolutionary War
- Boston Tea Party - dumped 342 chests of tea into harbor
- Boston Massacre - killed 5 colonists
- Declaration of Independence - 1776
- Paul Revere's Ride - 1775
- Battle of Lexington and Concord - largest battle
- George Washington lost more battles than he won
- Ben Franklin was the spokesman of the colonists
- Economic hardship followed the Revolutionary War
- Louisiana Purchase
- 872,000 square miles for $15 million
- Doubled size of the U.S.
- Parts of or all of Iowa, Missouri, Arkansas, Louisiana, Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, North and South Dakota, Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico
- Industrial Revolution
- Began in Britain late 1700s
- Industrial boom
- Population went from agricultural to industrial
- Mass production - cheaper
- Eli Whitney - inventor of cotton gin 1794
- Elias Howe - inventor of sewing machine 1846
- James Watt - improved steam engine 1776
- Robert Fulton - Inventor of Steam boat 1787
- Companies earned larger profits
- Awful work conditions - including children
- Discovery of America
- 1492 - Christopher Columbus
- Amerigo Vespucci - wanted to prove that America was not India
- Age of Exploration
- 1450-1600
- Driven by desire for wealth
- Traveled globe
- Christopher Columbus
- Renamed Bahamas "San Salvador"
- John Cabot
- Traveled to East Coast of North America
- Amerigo Vespucci - Recognized the separate continents
- Traveled within 400 miles of tip of south America
- Led to Colonization
Friday - NOTES ON PRESENTATION
- Revolutionary War
- Thomas Jefferson - Father of Constitution
- Paul Revere - not only person to warn soldiers of impending enemies
- George Washington - general of Army - Unanimously voted for President after Articles of Confederation
- Articles of Confederation - didn't go over well
- Taxation without Representation
- Boston Massacre - first shot of the Revolutionary War
- Battle at Bunker Hill - turning point of War
- Battle of Yorktown - British surrendered
- Inspired Patriotism
- Had to start from the ground up after the war
- Civil War
- Abe Lincoln was a republican - didn't want slaves in the west
- Oregon and California were part of the Union
- Wrote Emancipation Proclamation during war - couldn't really control the slave owners in the south
- Emancipation Proclamation - January 1st, 1863
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